The art of folding paper, or origami ... art of Kirigami is being used by engineers from the University of Bristol to create shape-changing metamaterials that morph into 3D shapes.

A hospital assistant says folding more than 150 paper animals, skeletons and Yodas has "got him through lockdown". Alex Ray, who works at Bristol Children's Hospital, has been practising origami ...

Engineers from the University of Bristol have developed a new shape-changing metamaterial using Kirigami, which is the ancient Japanese art of cutting and folding paper to obtain 3D shapes.

Although probably rooted in China, origami as we know it developed in Japan, where it was named for the words for “fold” and “paper.” It yields objects that are sleek and fragile ...